Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , enzyme defects are inherited — passed on from parents to children in the form of an abnormal gene . |
| 2 | It is an oral history , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 3 | For hundreds and indeed thousands of years , this knowledge has only been intuitive , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 4 | CUSTOM — A well-established , traditional mode of socially relevant behaviour passed on from generation to generation that prescribes the proper ways of behaving in given situations or under given conditions . |
| 5 | Mr Parkinson hopped delightedly from foot to foot . |
| 6 | What I knew about the Legion was based on a series of rumours and pieces of misinformation passed down from recruit to recruit . |
| 7 | He is armed with the Sword of Justice , an ancient weapon passed down from Champion to Champion through the reigns of successive Emperors . |
| 8 | The main Jacobite army now moved on from Dalwhinnie to Perth , and from there to Edinburgh . |
| 9 | Across the bumpy , threadbare putting-green , clots of people moved slowly from hole to hole , children eager and competitive , adults bored and tolerant . |
| 10 | We watched as Christopher 's expression changed slowly from shock to amazement to joy as he stroked the animal 's fur . |
| 11 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 12 | Was it her own whispered , husky voice , unrecognisable , as her head moved feverishly from side to side in the growing , unbearable tension of desire ? |
| 13 | I wandered in from time to time looking , usually , for something which was out of print or which no other bookseller had come around to stocking . |
| 14 | They moved mysteriously from shelf to shelf . |
| 15 | As the flow of water changed rapidly from summer to winter the streams and rivers deposited their loads again , leaving thin sheets of gravel or sand in some places and fine mud in other places . |
| 16 | Yes , well , owing to the fact that we moved home from Street to Road in , which was roughly just under a mile from town , meant a change of school then . |
| 17 | Er , the other thing is of course colleagues that the doors at the side are , are open for very good reasons and I mentioned yesterday from time to time that once we get er we get talking there 's a that goes and colleagues at the side of Congress have a great deal of difficulty in hearing and listening to the debate . |
| 18 | Izzie sat at his head and Gabriel at his feet , while the sun moved gradually from shoulder to shoulder of the stained-glass saints in the window of the gallery , and cast a variety of colours across the scales of Lucie 's costume . |
| 19 | The event has been brought forward a year from 1991 and moved also from France to West Germany . |
| 20 | Earnings per share moved up from 14.04p to 15.36p and the company is raising the final dividend from 4.34p to 4.57p , to boost the total by 5.3 per cent to 6.36p . |
| 21 | SEVENTY-EIGHT-year-old Pop Staples belongs to that great generation of bluesmen who moved up from Mississippi to Chicago in the 1930s . |
| 22 | In my day and at a good school , it was easy , as you moved up from class to class , to miss out totally on some period of English history — the only history that was taught . |
| 23 | Turnover rose slightly from $2830m to $2837m . |
| 24 | Half-time profits actually rose slightly from £30.1m to Pounds 30.8m , despite the interest income on Dunhill 's cash pile falling by £2.1m to £8.3m after lower interest rates and acquisition costs . |
| 25 | Yeah , I mean , obviously erm , I think we originally moved back from Thursdays to Wednesdays because on Thursdays I think erm |
| 26 | Towards the end , as the stage show of The King And I moved triumphantly from city to city , Rock began to feel like the boy who could see the emperor had no clothes . |
| 27 | The next phase of Haslam 's career was one where he moved about from company to company rather than from function to function . |
| 28 | At least there was someone to look after them as they wandered about from place to place . |
| 29 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it would be a disaster to adopt a policy that changed almost from hour to hour under Labour , with no constancy or purpose of any sort ? |
| 30 | Pre-tax earnings , at £111.2m , were 17.4pc up on the 1992 figure of £94.7m while turnover moved ahead from £834.6m to £919.9m , an increase of 10.2pc . |